The mainstream media, aided largely by politicans, have been flogging the myth of the moderate Islamists, which is exactly what the Brotherhood wants them to do. Because if the media lie for them, they don’t have to. And if they only speak their Jew-hatred in Arabic, well, then, the non-Arabic-speaking editors and writers of the AP, Reuters, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and all of the other media outlets that are carrying water for the Islamist takeover of the Middle East simply don’t report the truth.
Because the truth goes against the narrative that Islamists, once in office, are going to change their anti-Israel, anti-Western tune because they have to deal with the day-to-day struggle of governing, doing things like collecting the garbage. This is exactly what every media outlet said about Hamas’ takeover of Gaza. Their extremism would moderate, because they’d be tax collectors and garbage collectors and they’d have to settle municipal issues and ultimately, they’d make peace with Israel.
All of that has been proven false. Rockets still fly from Gaza into Israeli kindergartens. Men and women are no longer allowed to mix in hair salons and other places. Hamas is still sworn to Israel’d destruction, and they think they’re getting closer—because the Muslim Brotherhood just took over Morocco and is poised to take over Egypt. This is what will happen in Egypt, along with the persecution of millions of Egypt’s Christians, but the media narrative persists, and a blind eye is turned to the hatred and violence that is coming.
Here’s a rally, as reported by the BBC:
A third protest at the al-Azhar mosque, Egypt’s highest Sunni Muslim institution also has a large turnout.
It was organised weeks ago to call for Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque to be “saved” from Israeli control.
Members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most powerful political force, were called to support the cause, as the group officially boycotted the rally in Tahrir Square. Its Freedom and Justice Party expects to do well in parliamentary elections and does not want them delayed.
Here’s what the UPI wrote, based on the above report:
A third protest at the Sunni al-Azhar mosque was originally planned to demand that the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem remain out of Israeli control. But the gathering turned into a Muslim Brotherhood call for speedy parliamentary elections, the BBC reported.
Here is what actually was said at the al-Azhar mosque, as reported by Ynet’s correspondent:
Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen, as well as Palestinian guest speakers, made explicit calls for Jihad and for liberating the whole of Palestine. Time and again, a Koran quote vowing that “one day we shall kill all the Jews” was uttered at the site. Meanwhile, businessmen in the crowd were urged to invest funds in Jerusalem in order to prevent the acquisition of land and homes by Jews.
Throughout the event, Muslim Brotherhood activists chanted: “Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, judgment day has come.”
Speaking to Ynet outside the mosque following the prayer, elementary school teacher Ala al-Din said that “all Egyptian Muslims are willing to embark on Jihad for the sake of Palestine.”
Note how none of those quotes made it into the BBC news article. I can’t find a single AP story on the rally. The BBC story may be from a Reuters feed. But as the anti-Semitic Brotherhood rally goes deeply against the narrative of the “moderate” Islamist, I doubt you’ll find anything, anywhere. Unless you know where to look.
Here’s what that inspirational imam said about Israel a few days before he exhorted the crowds of Egypt:
The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar University and Mosque has warned that Israel’s plans for the Judaisation of occupied Jerusalem and attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque are a red line that should not be crossed. “It means,” warned Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, “the beginning of the end of the Israeli entity on the land of Palestine.”
He joins with Holocaust denier and Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, who spoke to the UN about the Christian and Muslim heritage of “Palestine”, but said absolutly nothing about the three-millennium Jewish history of Israel. It’s the new Muslim narrative, apparently. And the media are turning two blind eyes toward the vicious Jew-hatred, by not reporting it when and where it happens.
The Grand Sheikh’s comments were made at the launch of his “Statement on Holy Jerusalem” on Monday 21 November. “Jerusalem is not just an occupied land, but a sacred Islamic and Christian land,” said the Sheikh. “Its cause is not only a national issue, whether Palestinian or pan-Arab, but also an issue of Islamic ideology. While Muslims are ready to free Jerusalem from Israeli occupation, they emphasise its holiness among all believers.”
Or reporters are outright lying, like Karl Vicks, who is pretending that Hamas is going to give up its stated purpose of destroying Israel.
The head of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, and Abbas spoke for two hours, Abbas in the big chair, Meshaal on the couch with two others. Afterwards both met the cameras smiling. “There are no differences between us now,” Abbas said. Mashaal went with: “We have opened a new page of partnership.” And on whose terms? Hamas stands for resistance, its formal name being the Islamic Resistance Movement. But in the Gaza Strip where it governs, Hamas has largely enforced a truce with Israel since January 2009. And in Cairo it signed a paper committing itself to “popular resistance” against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. That’s “popular” in contrast to “violent” or “military” resistance. We’re talking marches here. Chanting and signs, not booby traps or suicide bombs.
That “largely enforced” truce? Well, there were 566 rockets fired into Israel from September of 2010 through August 2011 (the Jewish year). There were also hundreds of terror attacks. But who are you going to believe, Karl Vicks, or Israeli lying eyes?
As for that unity, well, the AP reported yesterday that Hamas and Abbas are going to call it quits on that interim government and each continue to do what they’ve been doing until elections. Funny how that works against the Vicks narrative that Hamas and the PA are bestest buddies now. That’s why Hamas went around taking down all signs of tribute on the anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death in Gaza. Once again, this is something that interferes with the narrative, and so, it does not exist.
The media are complicit in the lies that permeate the narrative. And they’ll be the first to blame someone else when their darlings start executing gays, murdering Christians, and sending rockets into Israel. (Of course, for that last, they’re going to blame the Jews themselves, because, well, that’s what they do.)
And they have largely enforced a truce, Meryl. When it comes to the Arabs, “largely enforce a truce” means “not firing quite as many rockets or making quite as many terror attacks.” When it comes to Israel, of course, one rifle shot is breaking the truce and contributing to the cycle of violence, etc., etc.
One nuke on the Aswan High Dam and Egypt will be uninhabitable for ten thousand years, not to mention the whole country beng swept out into the Med from the flood. Egyptians threatening genocide of the Jews are playing with fire, even more than are the Iranian Ayatollahs.
And what attacks on the Al Aqsa mosque by Israel? The only danger of damage to the mosque in the last few decades has been from the Muslim Waqf (religious foundation) that was doing illegal digging inside the foundations of the structure in order to destroy any archaeological sites there, for fear they would show the ancient Jewish presence in Jerusalem if they were ever properly excavated. Their fears were well founded. People going through the spoil heaps from those diggings (they cannot be called excavations) found many artifacts showing Jewish traits, like pieces of menorahs. The pottery found with the artifacts was of the First Temple Period and the divided monarchy.
Those diggings so weakened the foundations of the structure that aerial photos of the southern wall showed a distinct bulge in the wall. Come a hundred year rainstorm, or perhaps even a lesser storm, that the structure would have collapsed. Guess who would have been blamed. Then Israel stepped in and paid to shore it up again. Fo years the Waqf paid no attention to the Israel Antiquity Authority’s demands they stop their vandalism.
By the way, what the Waqf was doing violated international law. But then. practically everything the Palestinian Arabs do, especially in their warmaking, violates international law. And the world yawns, then complains about imaginary or lying accusations of Israel violations.
In Arabic, “truce” means “reload.”